Chapter 128 Idealist

Moratti's conditions?

Blanca looked at the court along Moratti's eyes, and he immediately guessed it.

Digan!

"I can agree to Mourinho's terms, but Mr. Mendes needs to persuade Degan to join Inter Milan!"

Moratti's idea of Degan has long been a secret. When Degan was loaned to Atlanta, he tried his best to introduce Degan, but AC Milan did not pay attention to Inter Milan's offer at that time.

Later, when Digan publicly expressed his attitude to leave AC Milan, Moratti tried to make an offer. At that time, he was very confident, but he didn't know what his mind was thinking at that time. At the last moment, he actually listened to Mancini's advice, introduced Ibrahimovic, and gave up Degan.

Now is the time to make up for the original mistakes.

Blanca couldn't help frowning when she heard this: "Mr. President, I have to say that it's difficult. Florence will not let their king leave, and Delaware is a person who is very willing to invest more in the team. Florence is not short of money!"

Moratti couldn't listen to Branca's words at all: "What if Degan is willing to leave? Can Florence still be forced to stay!?"

When Moratti spoke, Degan scored a goal. He received a pass from Marjo on the left side of the penalty area, defeated Samuel and directly headed through Cesar's ten fingers.

Seeing Degan with open arms and celebrating crazily, Moratti's face was even more gloomy, but his eyes were shining. People who were not familiar with Moratti just regarded him as a football maniac. That was his public image, but people ignored it. While he was the president of Inter Milan, there was another An identity, a businessman.

Moratti is certainly not a shrewd businessman, he is more like an idealist.

"And tell Robert now. Mancini! Get him out of here immediately!"

Branca was stunned. He wanted to remind Moratti that before the game was over, Inter Milan had lost nothing left, and his face still had to be taken into account, but looking at Moratti's face, he knew that this man had committed another second offense.

Moratti's lack of patience with the head coach is well known. In the 13 years since he took over Inter Milan in 1995, from Bianchi to Mancini, Inter Milan has changed a total of 15 head coaches.

Of course, Moratti's interference with the team is just that. He is neither addicted to red-headed documents nor four-word comparison control. He is a businessman and chairman, but he is also a fan and a pure fan. The sincere love of the rich second generation of this Italian oil family for Inter is a gentlemanly inheritance of family glory, not a local tycoon's bowing down to power.

A man who has only 1,000 yuan but is willing to spend 900 yuan for you to buy a bicycle is more reliable than a local tycoon who is billionaire but only buys a BMW for you. This is the logic of losers, but unfortunately, girls in the material era would rather sit in BMW and cry.

However, if a rich second generation with a wealth of less than 2 billion yuan, even if the hope of the championship fails again and again, even if his ideal international can only play the role of the Italian army during the two world wars for a long time, it will bravely spend more than 1 billion yuan for his team for 13 years, then, He is the real love saint in this era of football, which is so pervasive that he can touch the whole world.

This is a story about the pursuit of love and letting go because of love. In the past 13 years, Moratti has personally invested more than 1 billion euros in the Nerazzurri, which is even more than half of his total personal assets. What he expects is the "Great International Era" belonging to Massimo.

Sometimes deep love only requires a simple encounter. For Massimo. For Moratti, this kind of integration into life was staged when he was four years old.

In 1949, his father took Massimo, who was only four years old at the time, to watch the Inter Milan game for the first time. Since then, his life has been occupied by a strong blue and black.

At the age of 18, Massimo was invincible at Inter Milan's UEFA Champions League venue. Because his father did not send him a bicycle, he rode through most of Milan and rushed to the stadium to watch his beloved team's Champions League game.

At Meacha's stands, his heart was completely melted by the celebration of the tsunami of fans, and he was also impressed by the glory of the team's international era. He hopelessly fell in love with the team he had been following for 14 years and promised to create a great international era of his own.

From then on, a painful journey of life continued to boil as Moratti's blue and black blood blended into the bone marrow.

For physical reasons, Moratti's father Angelo chose to sell Inter Milan, so he separated from his beloved team for 30 years. In these long years, he is still the most loyal fan of Inter. Even if the team slipped into the trough step by step and eroded his heart in pain, it has never lost a trace of love.

In 1995, Inter Milan ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league and was on the verge of relegation. The team did not have the funds to introduce strong aid. Desperate Meacha fans found Moratti watching the ball as a fan in the stands, and then shouted "Moratti came back".

The heartfelt shout also touched Moratti's heartstrings. In fact, as early as Christmas a year ago, he insisted on acquiring this team integrated into the blood of the Moratti family despite the opposition of his brother Gianmarco, who was in charge of family wealth.

No one knows how much pressure Moratti's acquisition of Inter Milan is. His brother and even the whole family scoff at this money-burning behavior, only he stubbornly adheres to his ideals and invests in personal assets.

"I wanted to stay out of the circle and be a fan honestly, because no one in the family who took over the idea of Inter Milan agreed, and almost everyone said to me, 'Don't do that, that's a mess, and you will suffer from it.' But I still did that. If you ask me why, I want to say that this is also a use of wealth: to buy love.

On February 18, 1995, the head of the Morati family named Massimo entered the football circle. He bought 69.6% of the shares of Inter Milan from Pellegrini. At that time, Inter Milan once ranked 14th among 18 teams in the league, and the century-old giants were on the verge of relegation. , officially became the big boss of Inter Milan. At that time, Moratti did not bargain at all. It is said that the money was as high as 60 billion lire.

Such a stroke is just the epitome of Moratti's 13-year career in Inter Milan. For his beloved team and his love, he has accumulated more than 1 billion euros for the team to increase the team's strength and fill the team's fiscal deficit.

Don't mention Abramovich or the Abu Dhabi Consortium, you know, Massimo. Moratti is not a rich man in the family at all. Even in Italy, his wealth is only about 100. But it was this second-hand man with a personal wealth of nearly 2 billion euros at the peak, which resolutely depleted more than half of the team's assets.

He buys love with wealth and also endures pain for love. This is Moratti's most paranoid obsession with Inter.

For Moratti, happiness can become very simple in more than a decade. He occasionally rides his bicycle from Milan's Bilini Street and crosses more than half of Milan to the Meacha Stadium. Similarly, the old man will dance in the box as if no one is for a victory.

Like a loving father, he is always willing to buy the best toys for his children at any cost. Moratti's way of spoiling Inter is to keep investing, as if there is no end.

From the day he took over Inter, Moratti began to burn money: 3.99 million euros in 1996; 37.5 million euros in 1997; 68.5 million euros in 1998; 32.5 million euros in 1999; and a record number of 32.5 million euros in 2000 1303 million euros!

There has never been ambiguous since then. It seems that money is just a tool to serve Inter Milan in his eyes. The Italian media was surprised: "Moratti's love for Inter Milan is as much as his money."

Five 42.8 million euros to invite Ronaldo, exchange 1 million barrels of oil for Vieri, and retain Recoba with the world's first annual salary of 7 million that year. Moratti regards these stars as his own children, and he also loves these stadium babies as much as an ordinary fan.

Brother Gian Marco often complains: "Maximo, you spend too much money on Inter Milan. If you don't restrain yourself, be careful that I close your bank account."

Masimo always replied: "Those money can never match my love for the team. I did it for Inter Milan. Isn't this father's ideal? Sooner or later, Inter Milan will reach the peak again, because this is destined by God.

Inter did reach the peak again, but the cost is not something that everyone is willing to accept.

In order to fulfill his promise, Moratti spent 42.8 million euros to take him from Barcelona to the Meacha Stadium, with the dream of dominating Serie A and even Europe.

Moratti took good care of Ronaldo like his father, even if he was unable to play football for a long time due to serious injury, even if he resolutely decided to transfer to Real Madrid, even if Ronaldo later joined his sworn enemy AC Milan, his father was always enlightening his child: "He is not a traitor, I allowed him to leave. "

Moratti's doting on stars is beyond a boss's concern for employees. Such doting also creates contradictions and infighting in the locker room. When stars and coaches can't coexist, most of them become scapegoats are coaches.

The Inter Milan under Moratti has changed 15 coaches in 13 years, including famous coaches such as Lippi and Cooper. Moratti's butcher knife is always waved to the coach, so that the Italian media joked: "Once the team does not perform well in Meacha, the first thing that Massimo thinks of is the head coach."

Moratti is indeed not a shrewd boss, but he can also bear the weight of greatness. In March 2005, Brdiso's daughter Angelina was diagnosed with leukemia. Brdiso had no intention to play football and just wanted to go back to take care of his daughter, so he said to Moratti: "I want to go back to my daughter, so I have to give up Inter Milan, the World Cup and the high salary here. You can use this money. Go and buy another excellent defender."

But Moratti said, "You do what you should do. Inter Milan will help you. We are waiting for you."

In this way, he loved Inter Milan in his own way, even if such doting made it a "star black hole" and "master's grave" in the outside world.

As his brother Gianmarco described: "Masimo is not a shrewd businessman, he is more like an idealist." In the face of the difficult reality, it is natural to be an idealist like Moratti who has experienced pain.

He invested at all costs, hoping to replicate the "Great International Era" in his own hands, but every year's huge investment always sinks into the sea, devouring people's hopes woven year after year.

As a result, the Ner Azuri also began to diverge: some people sympathized with his experience and believed that all his mistakes only stemmed from doting on the team; another faction clearly regarded him as the biggest fetter for the team's development.

In world football, Moratti was once full of ridicule and doubts. Many people regarded him as a wayward and incompetent "big head", and some people thought that he just used money to build his own football manager game in the real world.

If they were the owners of teams like Berlusconi and De Laurentis, they would laugh it off. But Moratti has always been fettered by his deep love.

Just like in January 2004, when he resigned as the president of Inter, not only because of the team's poor performance, but also because of the banners of "Get out, Moratti, don't harm Inter again". Those doubts that deeply pierced his heart once made him choose to stand behind the scenes.

In 2006, when the "great left-back" Facetti died of illness, Moratti became the president of the club again. No one knows that the price he paid for the so-called title of the chairman, because Inter's fiscal deficit has reached 46 million euros in the past season and a half, the money will be borne by Moratti personally after research by Inter Milan's board of directors.

Without any hesitation, Moratti opened his private chequebook.

Pain, never far away. From the lack of family's puzzles and support, to the abuse of fans and the team's stagling, to the sarcasm and mockery of the media. The curse of "You never want to win the championship with money" even made Moratti sleep for a week.

Last season, when the team really won the league championship trophy with its own strength, Moratti really thought that he was going to succeed, but when the short happiness passed, he waited for the familiar pain.

The Coppa Italia was eliminated, the Champions League was eliminated, and the Serie A was actually at home to witness the opponent ascending the throne.

It is difficult for ordinary people to understand the pain in Moratti's heart.

In the end, all the pain turned into an explosion: "Let him get out of here immediately!"